Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025: Gallery tour of the exhibition "Reshaped Reality" currently being held at Osaka Culturarium Tempozan
The exhibition "Reshaped Reality," which reconsiders "what is a human being?" through hyper-realistic depictions of the human body, is holding a gallery tour! It offers an art experience that blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.
The Osaka Kansai International Art Festival Executive Committee (ARTLOGUE Inc., Head Office: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Chairman: Suzuki Daisuke) will hold a premium gallery tour mainly on weekends, accompanied by an exhibition coordinator, to allow you to enjoy the highlights and background of the works in greater depth. Twelve tours will be held from June 28th to October 12th at Osaka Culturarium, Tempozan (formerly Suntory Museum). The guide will be Miyake Atsuhiro, the exhibition coordinator and co-representative of the curatorial collective "HB." This is a special opportunity to hear valuable stories that you would not normally be able to know, such as the historical background of the production, the artist's intentions, and the behind-the-scenes of the exhibition.
At the Osaka-Kansai Expo, realistic android robots that utilize cutting-edge technology are attracting attention, but the history of hyperrealist sculpture, which has been developing in the international art scene for more than 50 years, is sure to provide an experience of new discoveries and surprises for not only art fans but the general public.
The "Reshaped Reality" exhibition that has amazed the world has arrived in Japan for the first time!
"Reshaped Reality" is an exhibition of human sculptures focusing on hyper-realism. This is the first time in Japan for this traveling exhibition that has been highly praised and visited many countries, including the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao in Spain (152,669 visitors) and the Kunsthalle Rotterdam in the Netherlands (219,183 visitors). The extremely realistic expressions and deformed and transformed bodies raise the fundamental question of "What is a human being?" Please feel the reality of life, which is also connected to the "future society where life shines" that the Expo promotes.
Chief Curator: Maximilian Otto Letze
Venue for considering human life: Osaka Culturarium, Tempozan (formerly the Suntory Museum) designed by Tadao Ando
Osaka Culturarium, Tempozan (formerly the Suntory Museum) was designed as an art museum by architect Tadao Ando and completed in 1994. With Osaka Bay as its backdrop and the blue sky as its backdrop, the building's impressive exterior is used by people from Japan and overseas as a base for disseminating diverse cultures, and is engaged in a wide range of activities.
The venue for the exhibition "Reshaped Reality" (Photo by Atsuhiro Miyake)
Main exhibiting artists
Come enjoy the world of hyperrealist sculpture, featuring 39 works by 27 internationally renowned artists, including British artist Ron Mueck, Australian artist Sam Jinks, and Maurizio Cattelan, whose work in which he glued bananas together with duct tape became a hot topic.
Ron Mueck《Untitled (Man in a sheet)》/1997/Silicone, fiberglass, latex, polurethane foam, fabric/34 x 48,5 x 50 cm/Olbricht Collection
© Ron Mueck/Courtesy of Olbricht Collection and Anthony D'Offay, Lomdon/Photo: Joachim Fliegner, Bremen
Sam Jinks《Woman and Child》/2010/Mixed Media/145 x 40 x 40 cm/Edition of 3/Collection of the artist
© Sam Jinks/Courtesy of the artist, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney and Institute for Cultural Exchange, Tübingen
Maurizio Cattelan《Ave Maria》/2007/Polyurethane, paint, clothing and metal/70 x ø 12 cm (x 3)/Private Collection
Installation view/ Photo by Atsuhiro Miyake
For more information about the exhibited works, please see the following website:
https://osaka-kansai.art/pages/exh-reshaped
Gallery Tour Details
- Name: Gallery tour of the "Reshaped Reality" exhibition
- Dates: Saturday, June 28th, 2025 / Saturday, July 12th / Sunday, July 20th / Monday, July 21st (national holiday) / Tuesday, July 22nd / Wednesday, July 23rd / Sunday, August 10th / Monday, August 11th (national holiday) / Saturday, August 23rd / Saturday, September 6th / Saturday, October 11th / Sunday, October 12th
- Time: Each day: 14:00~ (approximately 1 hour)
Meeting place: Entrance to the exhibition venue (Osaka Cultural Center, Tempozan 5F, 1-5-10 Kaigandori, Minato-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture)
- Access:
Train: 5 minutes walk from Exit 1 of Osakako Station on the Osaka Metro Chuo Line Bus: 1 minute from Tempozan Harbor Village on the Osaka City Bus / 1 minute from Kaiyukan (Tempozan) on the Nankai Bus / 1 minute from Tempozan (Kaiyukan) on the Kansai International Airport Limousine Bus
- Participation fee: Free *Exhibition ticket required
- Capacity: Approximately 20 people (first come, first served on the day)
* Advance registration is not required, but participation will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
*Registration will begin at 13:45 each day at the venue reception.
For inquiries regarding participation, please contact the Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival Office (Artlogue Co., Ltd.)
Email: study@artlogue.org
*Please refrain from contacting the venue regarding the exhibition.
About "Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025"
Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival is an art festival that studies the relationship between art, people and society. With the theme of "social impact," we aim to revitalize the economy and visualize social issues through culture and the arts. With an eye on the Osaka-Kansai Expo, we have been conducting research three times since 2022 in Osaka. This year marks the year of the Expo, and 93 artists from 24 countries and regions will participate (as of June 8th), and the festival will be held during the Expo as an art festival that plays a role in connecting the Osaka-Kansai Expo with the entire Osaka area. The venue will be spread out inside and outside the Expo site on Yumeshima, and will be held in various places that symbolize Osaka, such as the Osaka Culturarium Tempozan designed by Tadao Ando, the Umekita area, Nishinari area, Semba area, Matsubara City, the National Museum of Ethnology in Expo Commemoration Park where the 1970 Expo was held, and the Osaka Prefectural International Convention Center (all built by Kisho Kurokawa), the venue of "Study × PLAS: Asia Art Fair". This art festival is supported and supported by embassies and consulates from 18 countries, and will create a place for new dialogue and discovery on a global scale by developing art projects in collaboration with international organizations such as Germany, South Korea, and the EU (European Union). Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Osaka-Kansai Expo, which will see the participation of 158 countries and regions and nine international organizations, we aim to promote culture and art from Kansai to the world, and to use culture and art to revitalize the economy and make social issues visible.
■Company Profile
ARTLOGUE Inc.
- Representative: ARTLOGUE Inc. CEO Daisuke Suzuki
- Head office location: Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
- Established: July 7, 2017
- Business operations: Planning and management of "Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival" / Planning and management of web media "ARTLOGUE" and "Art Tourism"